Yams — Area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs): Yams — Area harvested was 80,735 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Yams — Area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, yams — area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) stood at 80,735 ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.7% on the previous year and up 3.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) peaked at 84,139 ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 42,532 ha, in 2003.
Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) ranks 9th of 20 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Yams — Area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 46,355 ha | — |
| 1962 | 48,546 ha | +4.7% |
| 1963 | 48,500 ha | -0.1% |
| 1964 | 44,800 ha | -7.6% |
| 1965 | 43,100 ha | -3.8% |
| 1966 | 49,160 ha | +14.1% |
| 1967 | 49,900 ha | +1.5% |
| 1968 | 51,614 ha | +3.4% |
| 1969 | 51,310 ha | -0.6% |
| 1970 | 50,537 ha | -1.5% |
| 1971 | 50,578 ha | +0.1% |
| 1972 | 50,695 ha | +0.2% |
| 1973 | 51,465 ha | +1.5% |
| 1974 | 54,209 ha | +5.3% |
| 1975 | 51,675 ha | -4.7% |
| 1976 | 52,417 ha | +1.4% |
| 1977 | 54,634 ha | +4.2% |
| 1978 | 55,712 ha | +2.0% |
| 1979 | 55,765 ha | +0.1% |
| 1980 | 57,513 ha | +3.1% |
| 1981 | 60,065 ha | +4.4% |
| 1982 | 62,259 ha | +3.7% |
| 1983 | 66,612 ha | +7.0% |
| 1984 | 63,485 ha | -4.7% |
| 1985 | 70,057 ha | +10.4% |
| 1986 | 71,448 ha | +2.0% |
| 1987 | 67,796 ha | -5.1% |
| 1988 | 67,727 ha | -0.1% |
| 1989 | 63,352 ha | -6.5% |
| 1990 | 69,885 ha | +10.3% |
| 1991 | 44,014 ha | -37.0% |
| 1992 | 49,244 ha | +11.9% |
| 1993 | 47,414 ha | -3.7% |
| 1994 | 45,516 ha | -4.0% |
| 1995 | 48,596 ha | +6.8% |
| 1996 | 46,906 ha | -3.5% |
| 1997 | 46,525 ha | -0.8% |
| 1998 | 49,339 ha | +6.0% |
| 1999 | 47,901 ha | -2.9% |
| 2000 | 44,251 ha | -7.6% |
| 2001 | 50,856 ha | +14.9% |
| 2002 | 43,776 ha | -13.9% |
| 2003 | 42,532 ha | -2.8% |
| 2004 | 49,901 ha | +17.3% |
| 2005 | 42,779 ha | -14.3% |
| 2006 | 43,473 ha | +1.6% |
| 2007 | 44,346 ha | +2.0% |
| 2008 | 47,393 ha | +6.9% |
| 2009 | 49,787 ha | +5.1% |
| 2010 | 56,468 ha | +13.4% |
| 2011 | 54,847 ha | -2.9% |
| 2012 | 73,625 ha | +34.2% |
| 2013 | 82,728 ha | +12.4% |
| 2014 | 78,028 ha | -5.7% |
| 2015 | 82,198 ha | +5.3% |
| 2016 | 79,782 ha | -2.9% |
| 2017 | 79,105 ha | -0.8% |
| 2018 | 78,190 ha | -1.2% |
| 2019 | 80,737 ha | +3.3% |
| 2020 | 81,365 ha | +0.8% |
| 2021 | 84,139 ha | +3.4% |
| 2022 | 79,061 ha | -6.0% |
| 2023 | 77,104 ha | -2.5% |
| 2024 | 80,735 ha | +4.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Yams — Area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | -37.0% | 69,885 ha | 44,014 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 48,143 ha | 43,100 ha | 51,614 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 52,769 ha | 50,537 ha | 55,765 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 65,031 ha | 57,513 ha | 71,448 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 49,534 ha | 44,014 ha | 69,885 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 45,909 ha | 42,532 ha | 50,856 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 74,571 ha | 54,847 ha | 82,728 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 80,481 ha | 77,104 ha | 84,139 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
- 6 Cameroon 80,505 ha compare
- 6 Democratic Republic of the Congo 27,602 ha compare
- 7 Ethiopia PDR 64,000 ha compare
- 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 5,266 ha compare
- 8 Sudan (former) 58,933 ha compare
- 8 United Republic of Tanzania 1,513 ha compare
- 9 Guinea 39,033 ha compare
- 9 Polynesia 530 ha compare
- 10 India 39,000 ha compare
- 11 Gabon 37,055 ha compare
- 12 Colombia 35,120 ha compare
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- Edible offal of cattle, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 0.3266 % change on previous year (2024)
- Edible offal of cattle, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production, annual 1.44 % change on previous year (2024)
- Chickens — Stocks, annual growth rate 2.07 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cattle fat, unrendered — Producing Animals/Slaughtered, annual growth 0.3266 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cattle fat, unrendered — Production, annual growth rate 1.91 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cattle — Stocks, annual growth rate 3.3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -1.24 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.73 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.79 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- Yams — area harvested in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) was 80,735 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — area harvested recorded in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 84,139 ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest yams — area harvested recorded in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 42,532 ha in 2003.
- How does Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) rank for yams — area harvested?
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) ranks 9th out of 20 groups with data for 2024.
- Is yams — area harvested rising or falling in Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Yams — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.